Presidential Quotes - Page 17

• God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

  Millard Fillmore

  Government, Evil, Slavery

  Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”

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• The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

  William McKinley

  United States, Missions, Benevolence

  William McKinley's letter, December 21, 1898.

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• I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Duty, Feels, Thrown

  Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.

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• I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

  William Howard Taft

  Pace, World, Glad

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• We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

  George H. W. Bush

  Lines, Sand, President

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• Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Innovation, Majority, Slender

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

  John Quincy Adams

  Slavery, Unions, Stains

  John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

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• There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

  John Quincy Adams

  Political, Enmity, Shallow

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• I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Circles, Humanity

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• Tell him to go to hell.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Hell, Go To Hell

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• If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Squares, Deals

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Presidency, Enjoyed

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• I feel as fit as a bull moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Moose, Bulls, Fit

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• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Rooms, Politics

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 12 Oct. 1915

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• One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Use, Tendencies, Weasels

  Speech, St. Louis, Mo., 31 May 1916. The Oxford English Dictionary documents usage of the term weasel word as early as 1900.

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• The White House is a bully pulpit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  White, House, Bully

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• Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Principles, Causes

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• There is no indispensable man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Jobs, Men, Indispensable

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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• There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Proud

  Speech, Philadelphia, Pa., 10 May 1915

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• America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Ostriches, America, Sand

  Speech at Des Moines, 1 Feb. 1916, in New York Times 2 Feb. 1916, p. 1

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• Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

  Woodrow Wilson

  People, Sovereignty

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.124, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Covenant, League Of Nations

  "Fourteen Points" Address to Joint Session of Congress, 8 Jan. 1918

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• Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Debt, Burden

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• The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Hands, Humanity

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Self, Office

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